Naps At School: Not Just For Kindergartners Anymore

Our kids sometimes dozed off in class. They stayed up too late, they got up too early and somehow, as their teachers droned on, they nodded off.  They came home later that afternoon and told us how their classmates laughed and their instructor did not.

Parents and teens have long been warned that, not getting enough sleep can be unhealthy. But, with the demands of school work, jobs, activities and family responsibilities, coupled with very early start times at many high schools, teens often s...